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European Parliament 2019-2024 Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 2020/2039(INI) 16.10.2020 AMENDMENTS 1 - 74 Draft opinion Mazaly Aguilar (PE657.414v01-00) Reversing demographic trends in EU regions using cohesion policy instruments (2020/2039(INI)) AM\1215651EN.docx PE658.985v01-00 EN United in diversityEN AM_Com_NonLegOpinion PE658.985v01-00 2/33 AM\1215651EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Tonino Picula, Paolo De Castro, Attila Ara-Kovács, Juozas Olekas, Carmen Avram, Ivo Hristov, Pina Picierno, Miroslav Číž Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new) Draft opinion Amendment - having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 14 November 2017 on the deployment of cohesion policy instruments by regions to address demographic change, Or. en Amendment 2 Ivo Hristov Draft opinion Recital A Draft opinion Amendment A. whereas Europe’s regions currently A. whereas Europe’s regions currently face far-reaching demographic changes face far-reaching demographic changes such as a low birth rate, an ageing such as a low birth rate, a high mortality population and an ongoing rural exodus; rate, an ageing population and an ongoing rural exodus; Or. bg Amendment 3 Ivo Hristov Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Draft opinion Amendment Aa. whereas rural and disadvantaged regions are often unable to acquire the same economic indicators for a given time period as other regions, which in some cases appears to pose problems when it AM\1215651EN.docx 3/33 PE658.985v01-00 EN comes to applying for support; Or. bg Amendment 4 Cristian Ghinea, Irène Tolleret, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Ulrike Müller, Martin Hlaváček Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Draft opinion Amendment A a. whereas agricultural workers inrural areas, particularly those living in remote areas, suffering from demographic disadvantages, face anexceptional higher risk of poverty and social exclusion; Or. en Amendment 5 Cristian Ghinea, Irène Tolleret, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Ulrike Müller, Martin Hlaváček Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Draft opinion Amendment A b. whereas rural areas that are faced with depopulation may experience land abandonment and increased risk of forest fires and face difficulties in their economic recovery 1a; _________________ 1a Forest fires — Sparking fire smart policies in the EU, European Commission (2018). Or. en Amendment 6 PE658.985v01-00 4/33 AM\1215651EN.docx EN Maxette Pirbakas Draft opinion Recital B Draft opinion Amendment B. whereas, in the light of the B. whereas, in the light of the pandemic, policies and instruments pandemic, policies and instruments addressing demographic problems must be addressing demographic problems must be reviewed; reviewed; whereas birthrate policies in Europe must be encouraged; Or. fr Amendment 7 Mazaly Aguilar Draft opinion Recital B Draft opinion Amendment B. whereas, in the light of the B. whereas, in the light of the pandemic, policies and instruments pandemic, policies and instruments addressing demographic problems must be addressing demographic problems must be reviewed; reviewed, especially in the more sparsely populated and vulnerable areas of the Union; Or. es Amendment 8 Ivo Hristov Draft opinion Recital Б Draft opinion Amendment B. whereas, in the light of the B. whereas, in addition to already- pandemic, policies and instruments established issues and trends, the addressing demographic problems must be pandemic has also shown that policies and reviewed; instruments addressing demographic problems must be reviewed; AM\1215651EN.docx 5/33 PE658.985v01-00 EN Or. bg Amendment 9 Emmanouil Fragkos Draft opinion Recital Β Draft opinion Amendment B. whereas, in the light of the B. whereas, in the light of the pandemic, policies and instruments pandemic, policies and instruments addressing demographic problems must focusing primarily on low birth rates and be reviewed; the rural exodus must be reviewed; Or. el Amendment 10 Tonino Picula, Paolo De Castro, Attila Ara-Kovács, Juozas Olekas, Carmen Avram, Ivo Hristov, Pina Picierno, Miroslav Číž Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Draft opinion Amendment B a. whereas the demographic changes and depopulation issues are severely burdening rural, peripheral, sparsely populated areas and islands, as well as impacting the challenge of ageing, generational renewal and agriculture development; Or. en Amendment 11 Cristian Ghinea, Irène Tolleret, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Ulrike Müller, Elsi Katainen, Martin Hlaváček Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Draft opinion Amendment PE658.985v01-00 6/33 AM\1215651EN.docx EN B a. whereas, EU Cohesion Policy makes a key contribution to delivering Digital Single Market objectives on the ground, in particular through significant financial allocations from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF); Or. en Amendment 12 Mazaly Aguilar Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Draft opinion Amendment Ba. whereas rural areas make up 44% of the Union's surface area; Or. es Amendment 13 Tonino Picula, Paolo De Castro, Attila Ara-Kovács, Juozas Olekas, Carmen Avram, Ivo Hristov, Pina Picierno, Miroslav Číž Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Draft opinion Amendment B b. whereas one of the main issues affecting rural economies is the declining share of agriculture; whereas data has shown that only 10,7% of EU farmers are below 40 years old and the farming population is ageing, which will have an impact on the agricultural sector; Or. en Amendment 14 Mazaly Aguilar AM\1215651EN.docx 7/33 PE658.985v01-00 EN Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Draft opinion Amendment Bb. whereas the needs of rural areas in the face of demographic change must be met in a more coordinated and effective manner; Or. es Amendment 15 Emmanouil Fragkos Draft opinion Paragraph 1 Draft opinion Amendment 1. Points out that the COVID-19 1. Points out that the COVID-19 pandemic must prompt us to rethink pandemic must prompt us to rethink policies designed to tackle demographic policies designed to tackle demographic problems and create new opportunities for problems and create new opportunities for economic and social development in rural economic and social development and areas; forward-looking investment in rural areas; Or. el Amendment 16 Maxette Pirbakas Draft opinion Paragraph 1 Draft opinion Amendment 1. Points out that the COVID-19 1. Points out that the COVID-19 pandemic must prompt us to rethink pandemic may serve to prompt us to policies designed to tackle demographic rethink birthrate policies designed to problems and create new opportunities for tackle demographic problems and create economic and social development in rural new opportunities for economic and social areas; development in rural areas; Or. fr PE658.985v01-00 8/33 AM\1215651EN.docx EN Amendment 17 Emmanouil Fragkos Draft opinion Paragraph 1 Draft opinion Amendment 1. Points out that the COVID-19 1. Notes the gravity of the pandemic must prompt us to rethink demographic problem and its social and policies designed to tackle demographic economic implications and accordingly problems and create new opportunities for considers it necessary to create new economic and social development in rural opportunities for economic and social areas; development in rural areas; Or. el Amendment 18 Benoît Biteau Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) Draft opinion Amendment 1 a. Emphasizes that inequalities in access to land, CAP direct payments and support, both between and within EU countries, are among the issues that need to be addressed in order to halt regional decline, allow older people to retire from agriculture and encourage young people to start farming; Or. en Amendment 19 Francisco Guerreiro Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) Draft opinion Amendment AM\1215651EN.docx 9/33 PE658.985v01-00 EN 1 a. Expects the deploiment of new cohesion social programs such as basic income pilot projects in rural areas; Or. en Amendment 20 Benoît Biteau Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) Draft opinion Amendment 1 b. Draws attention to the importance of ensuring the availability ofservices in the regions, as their decline is encouraging older people to retireearlier and move to cities where these services are easily accessible; Or. en Amendment 21 Maxette Pirbakas Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Draft opinion Amendment 2. Stresses that the ongoing 2. Stresses that the ongoing depopulation of rural areas is not only depopulation of rural areas is not only having serious economic and social having serious economic and social consequences but also hampering our consequences at local level but also chances of achieving the Green Deal’s hampering the management and upkeep of ambitious objectives; rural areas; recalls that the depopulation of rural areas is linked to the need to develop a more attractive economy and agriculture for young people; Or. fr Amendment 22 PE658.985v01-00 10/33 AM\1215651EN.docx EN Daniel Buda Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Draft opinion Amendment 2. Stresses that the ongoing 2. Stresses that the ongoing depopulation of rural areas is not only depopulation of rural areas is not only having serious economic and social having serious economic and social consequences but also hampering our consequences but also hampering our chances of achieving the Green Deal’s chances of achieving the Green Deal’s ambitious objectives; ambitious objectives; insists that the investments covered by the Green Deal should take the demographic factor into account; Or. ro Amendment 23 Ivo Hristov Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Draft opinion Amendment 2. Stresses that the ongoing 2. Stresses that the ongoing depopulation of rural areas is not only depopulation of rural areas is not only having serious economic and social having serious economic and social consequences but also hampering our consequences but also hampering our chances of achieving the Green Deal’s chances of achieving the Green Deal’s ambitious objectives; ambitious objectives and those of other EU policies such as the common agricultural policy, cohesion policy, etc.; Or. bg Amendment 24 Cristian Ghinea, Irène Tolleret, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Ulrike Müller, Martin Hlaváček Draft opinion Paragraph 2 AM\1215651EN.docx 11/33 PE658.985v01-00 EN Draft opinion Amendment 2.